Business Integration Suite (BIS)

With SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite, you secure your company's decisive competitive edge, thanks to the seamless integration of all your systems, applications, business partners and cloud services.

All you need is a single platform! No matter what data format, standard, or communication protocol – with SEEBURGER BIS, you can easily master any type of integration requirement to digitally transform your business processes.

Managed File Transfer (MFT) Solutions

Control IP, Demonstrate Compliance, Focus on Core Business

How many times have you struggled to send a large file to someone, particularly when you are in a hurry? How often has your business suffered (along with your nerves) when a file arrived late for system processing, or even at all? If the answer to these questions is ‘lots’, then you will be pleased to know help is available…

The Solution for Seamless API Integration and Management

The SEEBURGER API Solution supports a broad range of API technologies and offers preconfigured building blocks, empowering you to implement various real–time integration scenarios quickly and with minimal effort.

E-Invoicing Solutions

Solutions for automated, paperless invoice processing

Companies handling their invoice processes electronically and automatically are able to save between 60 and 80 percent of cost compared to paper-based processes. Gain fast ROI with BIS E-Invoicing solution and corresponding Cloud Services.

E-Invoicing with SEEBURGER allows you to support the complexity and variety of inbound and outbound digital invoices.

Engineering (CAD/CAx) & Product Data Exchange

EPX for engineering (CAD/CAx) & product data exchange

Protect your product know-how when transferring data across company and country borders with a comprehensive and standardized complete solution for worldwide engineering (CAD/CAx) and product data exchange.

The SEEBURGER EPX solution supports the digital connected engineering with data transfer and integration along the entire value-chain throughout the entire product lifecycle with all stakeholders such as OEMs, customers, partners and suppliers.

Financial Services

Business Integration Suite for Financial Services Industry

With an agile and single platform that can accommodate any format, standard, gateway, communication protocol and business partner with ease, your institution can focus on business growth and innovation in service delivery.

Career

Start your Career with SEEBURGER

Are you a bright, talented individual who has always excelled in your field?

SEEBURGER offers exceptional opportunities throughout the world for extremely bright and talented individuals who have excelled in their careers. If you are looking for a fast-paced environment with an excellent opportunity for growth, then you have met your career match.

At SEEBURGER we urge employees to fully develop their ideas, explore their creativity and become leading experts in the industry. Our fast-paced work environment is shaped by trust and respect with rewards for hard work.

Open up new possibilities and a new perspective whilst shaping your future together with us!

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Global Offices

SEEBURGER Global Offices

In an age when companies are becoming ever more international and the markets ever more global, SEEBURGER software solutions are the ideal choice. With our extensive worldwide distribution and service network, we are close to our markets and customers all over the planet.

We look forward meeting you in one of our offices in North America, Europe and Asia.

E-Invoicing – Governments Enforce Adaption

Learn more about our E-Invoicing solutions:

As local e-invoicing compliance requirements increase, so too does the corresponding technical complexity needed to implement them. This is especially true for Business to Government suppliers (B2G) and for Business to Business invoices with Tax authority clearance (B2Tax).

E-Invoicing Regulation in Various Countries

Austria

B2G over ebInterface or PEPPOL

Based on the provisions of Section5 of the Austrian ICT Consolidation Act (IKTKonG) the federal government departments only accept electronic invoices. The features required for submitting e-invoices are also available to other public sector institutions.

Invoice Recipients

Via E-RECHNUNG.GV.AT it is possible to transmit electronic invoices to the federal government and to connected institutions of other parts of the public sector. The national XML standard ebInterface or the international PEPPOL UBL standard can be used as invoice format.

Invoice Recipients of the Federal Government

Based on the provisions of Section 5 of the Austrian ICT Consolidation Act (IKTKonG), the Austrian federal government only accepts electronic invoices (e-Invoices) for the provision of goods and services. The federal government institutions are:

All ministries and their subordinated administrative offices

The Parliament

The office of the federal president

The higher administrative court

The constitutional court

The Austrian ombudsman board

The court of audit

Invoice Recipients of Other Public Sector Institutions

A detailed listing of all invoice recipients of other public sector institutions connected to E-RECHNUNG.GV.AT is also available. Currently there is no legal obligation for e-invoices to be used for the institutions of the other public sector.

For Contracting Partners of the Public Sector

In order to be able to transmit e-invoices companies need to register once (free of charge) at the USP (User Service Portal - see www.usp.gv.at). Suppliers who submit their invoice through a third party or use the PEPPOL transport infrastructure do not need to register at the USP.

After registration and login at the USP and accessing ‘E-RECHNUNG.GV.AT’ (under ‘My Services’) the next page will be shown

To transmit an e-invoice by using one of the supported delivery methods certain invoice data is mandatory

Within the Public Sector

Other public sector institutions have to embed the functions of E-RECHNUNG.GV.AT into a public sector portal (PVP) in order to be able to transmit e-invoices

After registering an authorized employee at the portal Austria (PAT) e-invoices can be submitted by using one of the supported delivery methods. Certain invoice data is mandatory.

PEPPOL (Pan-European Public Procurement OnLine)

PEPPOL enables electronic public procurement procedures (Public eProcurement) within the European Union across borders.

The purpose of PEPPOL is that every company in Europe – regardless of size – can exchange electronic messages with any public client and any private company that also participates in any EU country on the basis of this standardized.

In the context of public procurement, PEPPOL is an important step towards e-invoicing, which enables high cost savings due to faster accounting processes with fewer errors due to manual interaction and uniform data management.

The PEPPOL transport infrastructure is based on various technical specifications, technical standards and business processes.

By connecting to the SEEBURGER Open Access Point for PEPPOL starting Q4 2018, companies can easily send invoices to all public administrations in Austria that also use the PEPPOL network.

SEEBURGER E-Invoicing Cloud Service for Austria – B2G over ebInterface or PEPPOL:

When booking the SEEBURGER E-Invoicing Cloud Service for Austria, SEEBURGER customers can choose their preferred connection option (via ebInterface or PEPPOL).

France

B2G E-Invoicing with Chorus Pro

All B2G (Business to Government) or G2G (Government to Government) e-invoices in France will be centralized on a unique platform, Chorus Pro. Chorus Pro is developed and operated by AIFE (French Government’s Financial Information Technology Agency).

All B2G (Business to Government) or G2G (Government to Government) e-invoices in France will be centralized on a unique platform, Chorus Pro

Subcontractors admitted to the direct payment of contracts concluded by the State, local authorities and public establishments transmit their invoices in electronic form

State, local authorities and public institutions accept invoices sent in electronic form. Ultimately all the approx. 78,000 public administrations in France will exchange approximately 100 Million invoices per year over the Chorus Pro Platform.

The Chorus Pro Portal:

Reduces costs and processing times which lead to productivity gains for both companies and the client entity

Secures the exchanges

Works for sustainable development (reduction of CO2 emissions, paper, means of transport, etc.)

Is completely free

Who is obliged to follow Chorus Pro?

January 1st, 2017: for large companies

(> 5000 employees or annual revenue > 1.5B €)

January 1st, 2018: for medium-sized businesses

(250 <> 5000 employees or annual revenue 50M € <> 1.5B €)

January 1st, 2019: for small and medium-sized businesses

(10 <> 250 employees or annual revenue 2M € <> 50M €)

January 1st, 2020: for microenterprises

all others included “1-person” businesses

Accepted E-Invoice Formats on Chorus Pro

PDF invoices (signed or unsigned), which suppliers upload to the Chorus Pro platform. On the platform, the data of the PDF invoices are read out through an OCR. The supplier then has to check the results of the OCR and correct them manually.

SEEBURGER has renewed its qualification issued by GS1 for EDI electronic invoicing according to DEMAT in April 2018. The GS1 qualification identifies solutions that meet the demands of the market.

Germany

B2B and B2G E-Invoicing with ZUGFeRD and XRechnung

Obligation to receive and process electronic invoices by the public administration.

The E-Rechnungsgesetz law transposes the provisions of European Directive 2014/55/EU of 16 April 2014 into national law in Germany. The E-Rechnungsgesetz thus creates a binding legal basis for the receipt and processing of electronic invoices by public authorities.

XRechnung is the national version of the European Standard for German Administration and published by the Coordination Office for IT Standards (KoSIT).

Implementation dates of the EU Directive in Germany

The Federal E-invoice Ordinance adheres to the original implementation deadlines laid down in the EU Directive, i.e..:

27 November 2018 for federal public-sector clients

18. April 2020 for decentralised public clients of the Federal Government.

Obligation to send E-Invoices to public authorities

Based on the recital of the EU directive, the federal government is introducing an e-invoicing obligation for suppliers – like other EU states – as of 27 November 2020.

Exceptions are:

de minimis limit

Defence and security-related contracts

Organ loans of the federal states

UN/CEFACT and UBL, the two obligatory syntaxes for public administration

According to the implementing decision of 16 October 2017 of the European Commission, the following two syntaxes for reception and further processing are mandatory for public administrations:[1]

ZUGFeRD: B2B- B2G- E-Invoicing, the cross-industry hybrid invoice

UN/EDIFACT as a global standard is the world's most widely used standard in business in the B2B sector. In addition, the cross-industry hybrid format ZUGFeRD has been established in the B2B sector since 2014. ZUGFeRD offers small and medium-sized companies in particular the invoice as an image (PDF-A/3) and as a machine-readable E-Invoice data record as an XML file based on the Cross Industry Invoice XML from UN/CEFACT. The Forum elektronische Rechnung Deutschland (FeRD) of AWV - Arbeitsgemeinschaft für wirtschaftliche Verwaltung e. V. is the publisher of the ZUGFeRD standard.

XRechnung and EU invoice to public authorities

The latest ZUGFeRD version 2.0/Factur-X conforms to the European standard (EU invoice) and thus enables B2G e-invoicing ("calculation").

In addition to the joint German-French standard Factur-X / ZUGFeRD 2.0, the German specification XRechnung for public authorities is also based on the European standard – Electronic Invoice; both standards form two so-called core invoice usage specifications ("CIUS").

In accordance with the Federal E-Invoice Ordinance, an E-Invoice must always be submitted as an XRechnung or as an EU-Invoice.

XRechnung – the Core Invoice Usage Specification (CIUS) of the European standard for E-Invoicing for public administration in Germany

Just like Factur-X/ZUGFeRD 2.0, the XRechnung is also a CIUS and represents the European standard for electronic invoicing for administration in Germany and supplements it with further national regulations relevant for administration in Germany, e.g. by upgrading optional fields to mandatory fields. This enables the administration to specifically request necessary information in an invoice that is important for invoice processing in the administration. The European specifications are adapted to national requirements by means of XRechnung.

The central invoice receipt portal of the Federal Government for E-Invoices in Germany

The E-Invoice must be submitted via a central federal E-Invoice portal:

manual entry in the web form

file upload

e-Mail

De-Mail

Web service interface/PEPPOL

The accounting portal is a special application of the comprehensive administration portal and designed for federal expansion. Prior registration for a service account is always required. The E-Invoices are transferred from the E-Invoice portal via ERP integration into government booking systems, e.g. MACH or SAP.

“SEEBURGER’s E-Invoicing Solution helps us to react quicker and more cost-efficient to invitations to tender as well as provide our customers with new added value. We are really satisfied with our experience with SEEBURGER in this implementation, as it was highly professional as usual. We feel well prepared for whatever E-Invoicing requirements will come up in the future.”

Deadlines for VAT Registration of Issued Invoices to NAV

Amounts between 100.000 HUF to 499.999 HUF reporting to NAV within 5 days after the invoice issuance for invoices with VAT

Amount 500.000 HUF or higher reporting to NAV within 24 hours after the invoice issuance for invoices with VAT

An invoice must be created no later than the 15th day after the services or goods have been delivered

Report immediately after ‘technical creation’ of an Invoice

Penalties for Noncompliance

Up to 500.000 HUF / 1.600 € for each Invoice will be charged from 1st August 2018 when obliged taxpayers do not report via NAV

Würth relies on SEEBURGER for its global e-invoicing strategy and uses the SEEBURGER E-Invoicing Solutions for electronic reporting of tax information to the Spanish and Hungarian tax authorities

“The SEEBURGER electronic invoicing solutions for Spain (SII) and Hungary (NAV) master both compliance requirements and the technical complexity. They ensure the secure transfer of sensitive data and provide a reliable basis for using further SEEBURGER E-Invoicing Solutions in this dynamic environment.”

FatturaPA invoices must be stored in the same way as any other electronic B2B invoice in compliance with Italian law

Current state (since January 2017)

FatturaPA XML’s transmitted via SdI can be used for e-invoicing between business partners of the private sector (B2B)

For B2B the usage of SdI is optional, and – when practiced – reduces existing reporting obligations

Per quarter, approximately 5,000 B2B invoices have been exchanged electronically via SdI – as there was no obligation to use it

New upcoming Obligations

With the passing of the 2018 Budget Law, mandatory electronic invoicing between private companies has finally been approved in Italy. It becomes mandatory for domestic B2B and B2C invoices:

1) July 1st 2018

Services rendered by subcontractors in the supply chain of companies participating in contracts with a public administration

2) September 1st 2018:

Tax-Free Shopping

A regular invoice is issued

The goods are transported in personal luggage outside the European Community within 3 months of purchase

The goods are intended for personal or family consumption

The goods are purchased by a private citizen

The new obligation affects electronic invoicing for selling goods (not services) exceeding the 155€ threshold (including VAT), resulting from a single invoice at the same point of sale

There is a tax advantage reserved for people living outside of the European Community, that allows them to be reimbursed for VAT paid on purchases made in Italy

3) January 1st 2019:

Supply of petrol or diesel intended for use as motor fuel

All other business-to-business transactions

Every invoice from an Italian supplier to an Italian buyer must be submitted in FatturaPA format via the SdI exchange system before it will be considered as issued from a tax perspective. With this obligation Italy will operate very similarly to Clearance countries such as Mexico, Turkey etc.

Mexico

E-Invoicing with CFDI 3.3

E-Invoicing in Mexico with CFDI 3.3 and New Complement for Payments. Extended deadlines to send CFDI invoices version 3.3 in Mexico.

Mexico Introduced the CFDI Format Back in 2011 Which Is Mandatory for Most Electronic Invoices

CFDI stands for ‘Comprobante Fiscal Digital por Internet’ – literally translated as a digital fiscal document via Internet (bill). The CFDI invoice must contain both the signature of the exhibitor and the signature of a certification provider PAC ‘Proveedor Autorizado de Certificación’. The PAC must be authorized by the Mexican Tax Authority (SAT).

There are four types of CFDI’s: invoices, direct debits, credits and bills of lading. The CFDI tipoDeComprobante attribute can have the following values for this purpose:

‘Ingreso for facture’ (invoices) oder ‘nota de cargo’ (direct debits)

‘Egreso for nota de crédito’ (credits)

‘Traslado for carta de porte’ (bills of lading)

Deadlines for CFDI 3.3 Have Been Postponed Slightly

CFDI version 3.3 mandatory use has been postponed from 01 December 2017 to 01 January 2018. Taxpayers can use the current version CFDI 3.2 until 31 of December 2018.

CFDI with ‘payment complemento’ mandatory use has been postponed

From 1st December 2017 to 1st April 2018 (announcement from November, 2017)

From 1st April 2018 to 1st September 2018 (announcement from February, 2018)

Spain

B2Tax AEAT VAT handling with SII

The Spanish Tax Agency initiates a new VAT management system based on information from business transactions (AEAT = Agencia Estatal de Administración Tributaria / State Tax Administration Agency) in real-time.

“The introduction and use of the SEEBURGER E-Invoicing solution for SII in Spain succeeded 'playfully' in the usual Ravensburger manner. The adaptations to the solution caused by the new version 1.1 of the SII system were also taken into account within a short period of time.”

Markus Deiß, Head of Business Development and Process Analysis, Ravensburger AG

“Thanks to SEEBURGER, we have a current E-Invoicing solution for SII in Spain, which also covers the innovations from the 1st of July 2018. This includes the updated AEAT XML format with additional fields and content as well as the new web services version for communication with the SII system. We are very satisfied with the introduction and implementation of the E-Invoicing on-premise solution.”

On July 1st 2017 the Spanish Tax Agency Initiated a New Vat Management System Based on Information from Business Transactions Called Aeat

AEAT stands for Agencia Estatal de Administración Tributaria / State Tax Administration Agency in real-time. The technical system enabling it is called SII (Immediate Information Sharing System).

Currently this process will only be required for 63,000 taxpayers consisting of large companies, VAT groups and those registered in the monthly refund regime

Advantage for the companies: They will have an additional 10 days for self-assessments and will not file forms 340 (register books), 347 (transactions with third parties) or 390 (annual summary)

With the information received and the information contained in the database, the Tax Agency will prepare the taxpayer's tax data, for VAT purposes, thus facilitating the tax return

Who Is Obliged to Follow SII ?

Large companies (more tan 6M € of annual turnover)

Companies registered in the monthly VAT return (REDEME)

VAT Groups

Small and medium companies may join the system voluntarily. They are accepted based on a census declaration in December of the previous year.

This sums up to approx. 62,000 companies which make up 80% of the total VAT invoicing in Spain

Relevant messages and their deadlines for registration in SII

Invoice issued: Deadline of 4 calendar days from the issue of the invoice or from the date on which the accounting entry is made

Invoice received

Deadline of 4 calendar days from the date of the accounting entry for the invoice, in any event, by the 16th day of the month following the liquidation period in which the relevant operations are included

For imports, the 4 calendar days must be counted from the accounting entry of the document which records the amount paid to Customs (the DUA) and, in any event, by the 16th day of the month following the liquidation period in which the relevant operations are included

Penalties will be charged from January 1st 2018 when obliged taxpayers do not report via SII.

Würth relies on SEEBURGER for its global e-invoicing strategy and uses the SEEBURGER E-Invoicing Solutions for electronic reporting of tax information to the Spanish and Hungarian tax authorities

“The SEEBURGER electronic invoicing solutions for Spain (SII) and Hungary (NAV) master both compliance requirements and the technical complexity. They ensure the secure transfer of sensitive data and provide a reliable basis for using further SEEBURGER E-Invoicing Solutions in this dynamic environment.”

Spain

B2G over FACe

Based on the legal provisions in Law 25/2013 establishing the obligation of the electronic invoicing for the Spanish government departments, regional authorities and local authorities only accept electronic invoices. Since 2015 this applies to all invoices exceeding EUR 5,000. The public sector may only accept paper invoices below EUR 5,000.

Invoice Recipients

Via the FACe GATEWAY – http://www.facturae.gob.es/Paginas/Index.aspx – it is possible to transmit electronic invoices to the federal government and to affiliated institutions of the public sector. The national XML standard Facturae with an eSignature according to the XAdES standard needs to be used as the invoice format.

Invoice Recipients of Other Public Sector Institutions

FACe is the only entry point for e-Invoices to the central government in Spain. Local and regional governments are free to develop their own solutions or leverage a solution from other administrations; typically they also use FACe. All e-Invoice receiving systems are integrated into the Accounting Register of Invoices, which controls the payment process centrally.

Electronic invoicing services offered by FACe can be accessed via the platform portal. To support the direct integration of applications for invoice processing, a web services interface is available.

For Contracting Partners of the Public Sector

Suppliers can use FACe as the ‘Yellow pages’ of the public sector to look up the E-Invoicing addresses of a public administration (including those not associated with FACe).

Function Overview of the SEEBURGER BIS E-Invoicing Solution

Control of the processing of incoming and outgoing invoices as well as extensions for deep process integration with any ERP systems

In addition to supporting all e-invoicing messaging formats, it is important to automate and properly manage the incoming and outgoing invoice processes to and from your ERP. This can be integrated into your existing EDI processes and enhanced with a country-specific compliance component.

Electronic invoicing

Electronic invoicing is a form of electronic payment transaction between trading partners, e.g. a customer and a supplier

E-Invoicing can include various technologies with which an invoice is submitted electronically to a customer for payment.

An e-invoice can be defined as structured set of data that is sent as an EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) message. An e-invoice usually builds on earlier process steps such as purchase orders, order confirmations and delivery notifications. In case of lower integration requirements the focus is only on processing the invoice.

Retail partners who automate their invoicing processes electronically can save between 60 and 80 percent of costs – compared to a paper-based process. This is achieved by shortening throughput times while simultaneously increasing quality and transparency. E-Invoicing also improves the business relationship with your suppliers and customers: no lost invoices, better use of discounts and optimized cash management.

Invoice Lifecycle in the World

Invoicing makes it easy to report to tax agencies VAT/GST-data in real-time

Clearance is expected to grow among the world and will mid-term/long-term replace post audit entirely.

Pioneering countries such as Mexico have been promoting e-invoicing as a clearance model since 2011. The state obligates the use of a single XML format. Each transaction takes place in real-time for every B2B process.

Most countries within the European Union are still using Post Audit, which means that an audit can take place at a later point in time.

Global Situation

Changes from Post Audit to Clearance are increasing

The picture below shows the countries in which Post Audit and Clearance models are used today.

European Union Situation

The legal framework for the entire European Union is regulated by Directive 2010/45/EU, however the usage across countries varies

The legal framework is regulated by Directive 2010/45/EU, focusing on the need to guarantee the origin and authenticity of electronic documents

Each member state has developed its own legislation to transpose this directive to its own judicial framework

The format for the electronic document exchange will be XML because it is widely used and cost effective

E-Invoicing in Europe was developed in a harmonizing spirit designed to potentiate the benefits of e-commerce between businesses. Consequently, the obligatory nature of its use in the B2B area has not been proposed in any member state.

The vast majority of European states are implementing mandatory e-invoicing with their suppliers, in order to modernize their e-government systems and speed up collection times